Welcome to Maynard's Groovy Bible Tunes, the home of great Children's Bible Songs, suitable for Church, Sunday School, VBS, Holiday Clubs, and just singing anywhere! Visit the Jukebox to hear the songs and download PDF sheet music. Visit the store to get MP3 downloads, WMA downloads, and order CDs.
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The Blog

Yesterday and Today I discovered and (hopefully) fixed a number of serious glitches on the website.

1. The Media Player on the store pages wasn't working.

It's a different player from the one I now use on the jukebox, and it didn't like the changes. I've fixed that, so now you can listen to a song when browsing the Store.

2. The Media Player on the Jukebox didn't seem to play anything when changing quickly between one song and another.

This surprised me: and flumoxed me for a moment - what had I done wrong with the code?!! Why wasn't it playing? Then suddenly something played after a pause of 20 odd seconds. Weird.

What was happening was that flowplayer (the media player) was still loading the previous song's file in the background, even when a new song had been chosen. If you clicked a few songs in order, I think it probably loaded every one into its buffer, before eventually playing the last one you stopped on - hence the long silent pause.

Fortunately the flowplayer command $f().close() stops this buffering happening, so now that's fixed.

3. The Bible page wasn't working - stuck with a Javascript error.

... and no-one told me. I suppose I should have noticed. That's fixed too.

4. Everything is minified.

This isn't an error - just a new feature. I'm using jsmin-php to minify the javascript used on the jukebox. That should cut down the load time by a few seconds, and hopefully make the page more attractive to people.

If you happen to spot something wrong, or something doesn't work for you - PLEASE TELL ME!!!